Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization Tapa blanda -

Singapore.: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art.. 2023.. Profuse colour photographic illustrations, 125pp. Paperback. New. "As amalgams of the different spatial logics of other places, reassembled by globalization and the fantasies of real estate development, cities today are becoming what Michel Foucault has termed heterotopias. Assemblies of ruins, theme parks, entirely copied towns, simulacra, business districts on a globalized template, reconstructed historic districts, settlements, and ghost towns are finding a new expression in the contemporary world. Nowhere is this more visible recently than in China, and in areas coming under China's developmental influence. Copied cities, ghost cities and large scale Chinese investments in Africa are heterotopias because they contain the idea of accumulating different times, cultures, and countries within one place, just as a theme park contains all these different place experiences in a bounded zone outside of its own time and culture. Ella Raidel has explored… Leer más

Singapore Univ Pr, 2023. Paperback. New. 84 pages. 9.75x7.50x0.40 inches.